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The system allows failing pupils to get passing grades by playing games, doing work online or taking abbreviated programs that critics argue lack academic rigor.

In one alleged grade-booster, kids got science credit for watching “Jurassic Park,” sources said.
“It’s a bogus way of improving the graduation rate,” said Martin Haber, the former teachers union rep at Dewey and a retired special education teacher.

“The teachers have been under heavy pressure by their assistant principals to pass as many students as possible,” he added.

Among the accusations against Dewey is that teachers who are licensed in one subject, such as English, were passing kids for recovery programs in math, a violation under state education law.

One of the main reasons this happened is that the state pays administrators bonus pay if they have a certain number of kids graduating. So, these officials were trying to pad their pockets with more tax dollars.

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